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Technology Innovation Management Review

December 2013

Editorial: Living Labs and Crowdsourcing Chris McPhee, Editor-in-Chief Mika Westerlund and Seppo Leminen, Guest Editors Welcome to the December 2013 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month’s issue includes articles on the themes of Living Labs and Crowdsourcing, and it is my pleasure to welcome back our guest editors, Mika Westerlund, Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada, and Seppo Leminen, Principal Lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at Aalto University in Finland. The articles on living labs carry on the theme of our last issue (tinyurl.com/m47756y) and our September 2012 issue (tinyurl.com/lm46z67). In the first article, Carina Veeckman and Dimitri Schuurman from the iMinds research group in Belgium, along with Seppo Leminen and Mika Westerlund, show how the main characteristics, or building blocks, of living lab environments can impact daily operations and project outcomes. Based on their multiple casestudy analysis of four living Labs in Europe, they propose a "Living Lab Triangle" framework that triangulates the characteristics of the living lab environment, the living lab approach, and the innovation outcome. Their findings imply that managers and researchers contemplating innovation in living labs need to consider the intended inputs and outcomes, and must reframe their innovation activities accordingly. Their article provides practical guidelines on how living labs should be managed on the levels of community interaction, stakeholder engagement, and methodological setup. Next, Louna Hakkarainen and Sampsa Hyysalo from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, share key insights from an in-depth case study of a living lab collaboration to develop and refine a "smart floor" monitoring system for elderly care. Despite its ultimate success, the near-failure of the collaboration effort provided key insights into the role of the living lab environment as a catalyst for learning between users and developers. Researchers, managers, and living lab participants will benefit from the practical insights and key messages that emerged from this case study. In the third article, Risto Rajala, Mervi Vuori, and JukkaPekka Hares from Aalto University in Finland, and Mika Westerlund from Carleton University in Canada, explore www.timreview.ca

how technology companies can use crowdsourcing to go beyond mere idea generation to benefit from user knowledge in product and service innovation. Through their case study of a telecommunication company's crowdsourcing initiatives, the authors argue that companies need to think about user-knowledge management in a more holistic way to complement and make benefit of users’ knowledge, and they suggest four key lessons to help these companies move beyond simply crowdsourcing ideas. In the fourth article, Suchita Nirosh Kannangara and Peter Uguccioni from the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, examine risk management in crowdsourcing initiatives. By applying the concept of business ecosystem health to the crowdsourcing context, they examine the methods by which firms can maximize health by mitigating risk in crowdsourcing-based business ecosystems. In addition to these four articles, this issue also includes a report on a recent TIM Lecture, "Technology Adoption by Design: Insights for Entrepreneurs", which was presented by Stoyan Tanev, Associate Professor in the Department of Technology and Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark. In January, we will ring in the new year with our annual issue on the theme of Open Source Business. But, for now, we close 2013 with a look back at the most popular articles from our second year. Table 1 ranks the most popular articles published in the 12 issues between October 2012 and September 2013, based on traffic to timreview.ca over this period. This method strongly disadvantages more recently published articles, so the table also includes five trending articles that would appear in the main list if only recent traffic were considered. If you missed any of these articles when they first came out, I encourage you to add them to your reading list. Our full archive of articles back to July 2007 is available on our website at: timreview.ca/issue-archive We hope you enjoy this issue of the TIM Review and will share your comments online. Please contact us (timreview.ca/contact) with article topics and submissions, suggestions for future themes, and any other feedback.

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Technology Innovation Management Review

December 2013

Editorial: Living Labs and Crowdsourcing Chris McPhee, Mika Westerlund, and Seppo Leminen Table 1. Most popular TIM Review articles published from October 2012 to September 2013*

*The rankings are based on website traffic to timreview.ca from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013. The list also includes 5 recently published articles (denoted by ↑) that would appear in the main list if only traffic from June 1, 2013 to November 30, 2013 were considered.

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Technology Innovation Management Review

December 2013

Editorial: Living Labs and Crowdsourcing Chris McPhee, Mika Westerlund, and Seppo Leminen

About the Editors Chris McPhee is Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston. He has over 15 years of management, design, and content-development experience in Canada and Scotland, primarily in the science, health, and education sectors. As an advisor and editor, he helps entrepreneurs, executives, and researchers develop and express their ideas. Mika Westerlund, D. Sc. (Econ.) is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada. He previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and in the School of Economics at Aalto University. Mika earned his doctoral degree in Marketing from the Helsinki School of Economics. His current research interests include open innovation, business strategy, and management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. Seppo Leminen holds positions as Principal Lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at Aalto University in Finland. He holds a doctoral degree in Marketing from the Hanken School of Economics and a licentiate degree in Information Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology (now the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto University). His doctoral research focused on perceived differences and gaps in buyer-seller relationships in the telecommunication industry. His research and consulting interests include living labs, open innovation, value co-creation and capture with users, neuromarketing, relationships, services, and business models in marketing as well as management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. Citation: McPhee, C., M. Westerlund., and S. Leminen. 2013. Editorial: Living Labs and Crowdsourcing. Technology Innovation Management Review. December 2013: 3–5. Keywords: living labs, crowdsourcing, open innovation

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